Olympian Challenger
Olympian Challenger #1
by Astrid Arditi
Published: July 3, 2018
Publisher: Astrid Arditi
Genre: Fantasy, Mythology, Romance, Young Adult
Blurb:
A hero’s tournament. A defiant contender. Does one girl have the courage to take on Mount Olympus?
Hope’s world doesn’t have room for heroes. She barely has time for schoolwork, swim team, and taking care of her ailing mother. But when she’s invited to a mysterious tournament, the all-powerful hosts won’t take no for an answer.
Transported to Mount Olympus, Hope comes face to face with her new trainers—the pantheon of Greek gods. While other contenders train hard to gain a fighting edge, Hope searches for a way out. Instead, she finds a gorgeous shadow god who may just convince her to stay…
As each round unfolds, the ultimate prize draws closer—the granting of her heart’s deepest desire. If she survives the final challenge, her mother’s cure would be within reach…but only if Hope can ignore the tournament’s dark purpose.
Olympian Challenger is the first book in a bold YA urban fantasy trilogy. If you like Greek mythology, forbidden romance, and feats of courage, then you’ll love Astrid Arditi’s heroic coming-of-age tale.
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My Review:
It’s just Hope and her mom. Her mom is her whole life. Her mom is sick. She is losing more and more of her every day. Her mom has dementia. All Hope wants is to save her mom, make her better. Hope spends her days at school and her nights with her mom. Hope takes care of her mom with the help a few friends. Hope would give anything if she could save her mom.
Her wish may have just come true when she receives an invitation along with every twelfth grader in New York to a challenge on Mount Olympus. If she can pass the challenge she will get her heart’s desire.
Hope wakes up in Mount Olympus to face other kids her age in battles. She meets some new friends along the way two to which she becomes very close to Amy and Gabriel. Hope has a very good soul who puts others before herself to keep harm coming to them. All the teenagers face some hard and terrible challenges in Mount Olympus. Hope, Amy and, Gabriel all work to face the challenges together but there can only be one winner.
I loved the Greek mythology stories that were woven throughout Olympian Challenger and seeing Hope not only facing the challenges but being strong enough to know when and who to stand up against when the right time came. I also loved that the characters had to do the challenges not knowing who or what was coming for them next.
I have loved visiting this world in Olympian Challenger and going to Mount Olympus with Hope and meeting Amy and Gabriel as well as all the Gods and Goddess along with their teachers too. Olympian Challenger has been an awesome journey that has kept me amazed from beginning to end. While the ending was the best ever I still have a lot of unanswered questions so many that I can’t wait to read the next book in the Olympian Challenger.
If you like Greek mythology and the Greek Gods and Goddess and all their stories then you are going to love Olympian Challenger.
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